The role of mesoscale eddies time and length scales on phytoplankton production

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-186

  Perez Munuzuri V ^a   Huhn, F ^b  

^a MeteoGalicia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROWTH RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; PHYTOPLANKTON; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77950481764     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-177-2010     Document Type: Article

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